Fruitville, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mayhew Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56379. The Survey maps it on the Mayhew quadrangle.

Fruitville within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1950 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Mayhew quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Fruitville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	59
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1992	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mayhew	1.7 miles	11
Popple Creek	4.6 miles	11
Jakeville	5.5 miles	11
Watab	6.0 miles	13
Rockwood Estates	6.1 miles	13
Gilman	7.1 miles	11
Parent	7.4 miles	11
Rice	7.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654717. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.